Tadhkirah — Page 557
1901 557 From this she understood that the life and death of Jesus were unaffected by any human intervention. The above was the subject of her dream. The Promised Messiah [as] said: When I pondered over it, it was conveyed to me that: [Urdu] In truth, the revival that has now taken place after a thousand years of death is free from human intervention. This means that as God has created Jesus without any father, the Promised Messiah [as] was bestowed spiritual life without the intervention of a teacher or a spiritual preceptor. A teacher is like a father; indeed he is the true father. Plato has said: A father brings a soul to the earth and a teacher raises a soul from the earth to heaven. In short, just as Jesus had been born without a father and without the intervention of a human being, in the same way, in this case God bestowed spiritual life out of His pure grace and benevolence without the intervention of a teacher or a preceptor. Then, while I was thinking about death, I was overtaken by a light slumber and the revelation came: [Urdu] Freemasons will not be put in power to destroy him. From Freemasons, I understood people who conspire secretly. From the word ladder [which had occurred in my wife’s dream], I understood that spirits descend from heaven and ascend to heaven. What an interesting matter it is that Allah the Almighty has put a grand prophecy in it. It predicts that people will